Abstractions don't leak?

via yosh: yes… Yes!

@tef on cohost.org: Abstraction: more than a miserable pile of secrets

abstractions don’t leak, either.

leaky abstractions are just another way of talking about “information hiding” — abstractions can share details, abstractions can partition details, but sure enough, they don’t really hide anything from the programmer.

despite people yelling “all abstractions leak detail” no-one stops to think “maybe we shouldn’t be using them to hide things in the first place.” alas

(My take, which I think largely aligns with @tef’s: An abstraction that you don’t understand will eventually bite you in the ass. It’s better perhaps to think of an abstraction as shorthand for a concept that you already understand.)

(Also: cohost. Huh. Hadn’t heard of it before.)